Discover a lost Spotify song right now with Forgotify

A new website called Forgotify lets you listen to the
tracks that haven't received a single play on music-streaming
service Spotify, despite being part of its vast library.

Inspired by the fact that 20 per cent of the 20 million songs
listed in Spotify's music library haven't been played even once,
Lane Jordan, an art director from San Francisco, teamed up with
developers J Hausmann and Nate Gagnon to develop the site, says
Time.

The Forgotify engine trawls Spotify's API looking for musical
underdogs, then each day it removes any songs from its list that
have been played, promoting them to the ranks of… well, not
popularity exactly, but removing the millstone marked "zero plays"
from around their necks.

Sadly, that list of four million neglected tunes isn't shrinking
even with Forgotify's help though. In fact, because Spotify's
library is constantly growing, so is the number of songs that have
never been played, says Jordan.

Wired.co.uk has taken Forgotify for a whirl to see if it
unearths any buried treasures. Among various Bollywood songs and
cuckoo noises from a sound effects album, we came across a bearable
country-style track The Crazies by folk rock
ensemble New Mongrels. Obviously there is a very good reason some
of the songs on Spotify have never been played, but we also
discovered some Mozart and Bach in the mix, which just goes to show
that reputation doesn't guarantee you anything these days.

To use Forgotify, you have to be signed into Spotify and head to
the website, which uses an embedded player that provides you with
randomly generated unplayed songs. It will try its hardest to mix
up genres, so you're not listening to similar stuff back to back.
But while it makes for a diverse listening experience that will
certainly expose you to things you never knew existed, it's
unlikely to hit the spot in the same way as your own carefully
curated playlists.